Also Known As:
Bilin, Bogo, Bogos, Bilayn, Balen, Beleni, Belen, Bilein, Bileno, North Agaw, Blin
Dialects & Varieties
Blin orthography: a history and an assessment
Fallon, Paul D. 2006. "Blin Orthography: a History and An Assessment." In Selected proceedings of the 36th annual conference on African linguistics: shifting the center of Africanism in language politics and economic globalization, edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton. 93-98. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~90,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speakers
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Comments on speakers
"The language policy of the Eritrean government is to encourage mother-tongue education for native speakers of each of its nine ethnolinguistic groups through primary school (Chefena, Kroon and Walters 1999). When this was implemented for the Blin in 1997, the government provided Blin curricular materials in the language using a new Roman-based alphabet. This overturned a 110-year tradition of writing Blin in Ethiopic script."
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Other Languages Used By The Community
Tigre, Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Amharic
Number of Other Language Speakers:
Most
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Writing Systems
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Writing system:
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